WORKING PLAN · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 23, 2026
Find what works now, correct recurring difficulties, and check the improvement on unfamiliar material.
Start with CARS, then B/B, P/S, and C/P. Each test is new, passage-based material and intentionally demanding. CARS has 51 minutes; the other three have 48 minutes each, proportional to the standard MCAT section clocks. This is a manageable block size, not a full-section score prediction.
Each return to a section mixes fresh questions targeting previous difficulties with new topics, passage types, and reasoning patterns. Include occasional fresh checks of earlier improvements too. For CARS, use new passages to revisit earlier reasoning difficulties alongside unfamiliar patterns. Attempt the block before rereading earlier explanations, then review. Carry unresolved difficulties into later cycles and adjust the mix using the latest results. Later cycles need newly authored and checked sets; they are not generated automatically.
Repeated attempts at the same set are learning practice. We will compare patterns across fresh sets, not convert these results into an MCAT score.
The practice page now offers only the four 30-question tests. Saved debrief responses and impressions from earlier work remain in Results as learning notes. Use those observations to decide what to check in the next fresh block; there is no need to repeat the older forms.
Confirm the selected Blueprint exam is unseen and accessible. Keep it separate from rotation practice.
Use a quiet room at home, normal section clocks and scheduled breaks, or your approved accommodations. Put the phone outside the room. No notes, lookups, pausing, or extra timing restrictions.
Allow about 7.5 hours plus setup. Use normal flags; do not add detailed note-taking or think-aloud tasks during the exam.
Save the section results and any available timing data. Before viewing explanations, briefly note where you rushed, felt uncertain, or lost concentration. Estimates and “I don’t remember” are acceptable.
Skip detailed answer review that evening. Sunday, October 4: take the day off.
A third-party score describes that provider’s test. Do not add a fixed number of points to estimate an AAMC score.
Do not cram to meet the dates. Review quality and sleep take precedence. Use another unseen full-length later in October if repeatability or full-day performance remains unclear.
The site saves your answer, confidence, and approximate timing. After the three-question debrief, inspect every answer and explanation. Make an individual note only for an item that needs a correction or further checking.
Possible explanations include a knowledge gap, passage interpretation, answer-choice reasoning, timing, or mixed causes. Keep the explanation tentative until a later fresh set checks it.
Review your recorded work with you, identify recurring patterns, assign targeted practice, and revise the plan after fresh checks. Claude can provide another review of the same evidence.
Your parent can download the saved results and bring them to our next review. Bring commercial-exam results and your own notes separately. Analysis and plan changes happen when we review the evidence; there is no automatic monitoring.
We may never reconstruct August 15. These observations guide current preparation; they do not prove what caused that result. We will not infer anxiety from a score drop alone.
Use manageable cycles of targeted learning, timed application, review, and fresh checks around college. Continue remaining UWorld; use completed Kaplan and AAMC material for learning. Reserve genuinely unseen exams for checkpoints.
Reassess the workload when you are home. Add sustained sections and full-length rehearsals as the evidence calls for them. More available time does not require filling every hour with study.
Look for stable performance across several genuinely unseen assessments, all four sections, and realistic morning conditions. Review each assessment before scheduling more. Repeated AAMC scores are useful learning data, not fresh readiness evidence.
Review consistency, unresolved weaknesses, available fresh material, and application timing together. Confirm official scheduling and change deadlines when selecting the date. Revise the March window if preparation is not dependable enough.